DBMS > Badger vs. FatDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FatDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

FatCloud

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2017

2012

2016

1989

2006

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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