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DBMS > Badger vs. FoundationDB vs. NuoDB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FoundationDB vs. NuoDB vs. RisingWave

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerapple.github.io/­foundationdbdoc.nuodb.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDGraph LabsFoundationDBDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.RisingWave Labs
Initial release2017201320132022
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C++Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyJava, SQLUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers and Roles

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