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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2008

2013

2018

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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