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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Dolt vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolthub.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DGraph Labs

DoltHub Inc

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2018

2013

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Role-based access control

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