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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. PlanetScale vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdgraph.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbplanetscale.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.SoftmotionsPlanetScaleScyllaDB
Initial release20172016201220202015
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoGoCGoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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 infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, Lua
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID at shard levelno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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