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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

pouchdb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DGraph Labs

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

1994

2012

2020

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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