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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

memgraph.com

nsdb.io

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Social network pages

Developer

DGraph Labs

Memgraph Ltd

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2017

2022

Current release

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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