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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmilvus.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsGoogleScyllaDB
Initial release20172013201420192015
Current release2.7.5, January 20242.1.12, February 20172.3.4, January 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaScriptC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and StringsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes, Lua
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BadgerInfluxDBLovefieldMilvusScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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