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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TiDB vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

pingcap.com

www.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

docs.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2016

2010

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.2.0, July 2024

11.3, April 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Go, Rust

Java, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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