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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2017

1995

1984

2010

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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