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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EJDB vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gridgain.com

opennms.github.io/newts

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Softmotions

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2017

2012

2007

2014

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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