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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn 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 durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasetempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014TempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172012201220122018
Current release1.0.7075, December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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