DBMS > Badger vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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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)

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Softmotions

IBM

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2012

2017

2007

2014

Current release

2.0

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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