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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Geode vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn 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 processesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergeode.apache.orgpostgis.netpouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergeode.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20172002200520122019
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJavaCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnodynamic typing
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.nonoyesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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