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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

realm.io/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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