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DBMS > Badger vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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 durabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.kinetica.comorientdb.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectKineticaOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20172012201220102010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.1, August 20213.2.29, March 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC, C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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
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 developmentyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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