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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Quasardb

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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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cognitect

IBM

quasardb

Initial release

2017

2012

2017

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.0

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

by using LevelDB

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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