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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

DGraph Labs

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2017

2002

2016

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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 per client and object definable

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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