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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.datomic.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cognitect

Esgyn

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2012

2015

2020

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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