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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Social network pages

Developer

DGraph Labs

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.19, 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

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

yes

based on RocksDB

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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