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DBMS > Badger vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­spannerobjectbox.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectGoogleObjectBox Limitedquasardb
Initial release20172012201720172009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.online/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID
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 infoby using LevelDB
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 developmentnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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