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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

DGraph Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1995

1984

2019

1992

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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