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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermachbase.com/­dbmswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsMachbaseOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172013198420052001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20237.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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