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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

rethinkdb.com

surrealdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SurrealDB Ltd

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2009

2022

2018

2019

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

v1.1.1, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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