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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HBase vs. openGauss vs. QuestDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 BigTableAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
questdb.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
questdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHuawei and openGauss communityQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2017200820192014
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL 2011SQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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BadgerHBaseopenGaussQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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