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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Ingres vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 durabilityWell established RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresquasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectActian CorporationquasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201720121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20092014
Current release1.0.6735, June 202311.2, May 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 developmentnoyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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BadgerDatomicIngresQuasardbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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