DBMS > Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.firebolt.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.firebolt.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

DGraph Labs

Brytlyt

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2016

1983

2020

2014

Current release

5.0, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

PHP

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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