badger is better because it has split key/value tables. a lot less wasted time compacting every time values are written, and easier and faster to use key table to store some of the data that has to be scanned a lot.

for whatever stupid reason, nobody else in database development has realised the benefit of the key/value table splitting, even though the tech has been around for 9 years already.

probably similar reasons why so many businesses are stuck with oracle