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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HugeGraph vs. OrientDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

orientdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Baidu

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

2010

Current release

0.9

3.2.29, March 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java, Javascript

Java

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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