DBMS > Badger vs. Datomic vs. Kdb vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Kdb vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datomic.com

kx.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

code.kx.com

docs.keydb.dev

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cognitect

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2019

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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