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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.kinetica.com

www.postgres-xl.org

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DGraph Labs

Kinetica

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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