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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsCCRi and othersGoogleObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172014201120172001
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.23, February 20214.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyesno
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