DBMS > Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DGraph Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

Softmotions

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2018

2012

1989

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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