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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Memcached vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.memcached.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20172003201420002022
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCScalaCRust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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