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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbrytlyt.iocassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.brytlyt.iocassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsBrytlytApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release20172016200820231983
Current release5.0, August 20234.1.3, July 20231.0, March 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++ and CUDAJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnoLuayes
Triggersnoyesyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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