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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. NuoDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20172004201019992013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonErlangC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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