DBMS > Badger vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

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

Primary database model

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

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

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

Developer

DGraph Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2017

2014

2016

2018

Current release

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

Eventual 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

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

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