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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

FairCom Corporation

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2017

2016

2012

1979

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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