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DBMS > Badger vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDGraph LabsSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release2017201420102017
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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