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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HarperDB vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.harperdb.iowww.memcached.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsHarperDBDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2017201720032015
Current release3.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoNode.jsCGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesnoNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDBnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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