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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. WakandaDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

milvus.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

DGraph Labs

GeoSpock

Google

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2014

2019

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

2.3.4, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++, Go

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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