DBMS > Badger vs. GeoSpock vs. Informix vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GeoSpock vs. Informix vs. Riak KV

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

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

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

DGraph Labs

GeoSpock

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

1984

2009

Current release

2.0, September 2019

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C, C++ and Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

yes, using Riak Security

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