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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.esgyn.cn

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Esgyn

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

2018

1987

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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