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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Faircom DB vs. LeanXcale vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.leanxcale.com

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

FairCom Corporation

LeanXcale

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

1979

2015

2013

Current release

V12, November 2020

V8.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

simple password-based access control

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