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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Firebolt vs. Kdb vs. PouchDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performance Time Series DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.firebolt.iokx.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.firebolt.iocode.kx.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDGraph LabsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcApache Software Foundation
Initial release201720202000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032012
Current release3.6, May 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoqJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsno
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BadgerFireboltKdbPouchDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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