DBMS > Badger vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

sqream.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.sqream.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Machbase

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

2010

2013

2014

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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