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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Google
Initial release201720172017
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageGoC and Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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