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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. TypeDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstypedb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsMicrosoftVaticle
Initial release20172008201219922016
Current release7.2.4, September 20121902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared libraryADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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