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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Derby vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdb.apache.org/­derbywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software FoundationIBMquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20171997201420092008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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