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

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

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.mysql.com

siridb.com

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

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.siridb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Cesbit

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2017

1995

2017

1998

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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