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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

DGraph Labs

FatCloud

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2012

2005

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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