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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GBase vs. GreptimeDB vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gbase.cn

greptime.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Greptime Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2004

2022

2013

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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