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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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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.

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gbase.cn

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Qdrant

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2004

2013

2021

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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

C++

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Key-based authentication

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