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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 BigTableMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#315  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score107.93
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172008199220132001
Current release2.3.4, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.10.0, December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infobut no files for transaction loggingyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nono

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