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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datomic.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2017

2012

2009

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in Lua

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor on file system level

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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