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DBMS > Badger vs. Hypertable vs. Kdb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Hypertable vs. Kdb vs. SwayDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerkx.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercode.kx.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsHypertable Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSimer Plaha
Initial release201720092000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++qScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonorights management via user accountsno
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BadgerHypertableKdbSwayDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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