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DBMS > Badger vs. MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Widely used open source RDBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen Source Time Series DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.mysql.complanetscale.comsiridb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdev.mysql.com/­docplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.siridb.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDGraph LabsOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunPlanetScaleCesbitVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20171995202020172018
Current release8.4.0, April 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++GoCGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID at shard levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple rights management via user accounts

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