DBMS > Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Infobright vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Infobright vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

DGraph Labs

Google

Baidu

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2018

2005

1980

Current release

0.9

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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