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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.leanxcale.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2015

1989

2005

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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