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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Heroic vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An 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 ElasticSearch

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.51
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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

opensearch.org/docs/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

Spotify

Amazon Web Services

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2021

2013

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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