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

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermachbase.com/­dbmswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsMachbaseOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172013198420122001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20237.4.1.1, 20217.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP Open VMSserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes 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 tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlnono

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