DBMS > Badger vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

pouchdb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2012

2022

2014

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

yes

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

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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