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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. KeyDB vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

pouchdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DGraph Labs

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2019

2012

2020

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

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