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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EJDB vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime

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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)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Softmotions

Alachisoft

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2012

2005

2020

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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