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DBMS > Badger vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20172008201820102013
Current release2.3.4, January 20212023.3, June 2023V128.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesno
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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