DBMS > Badger vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2gis.org

hbase.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2008

1991

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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