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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

Spotify

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2000

2014

2015

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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