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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Graph Engine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.graphengine.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

DGraph Labs

Google

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2008

2010

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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 (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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