DBMS > Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. RocksDB

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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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

geode.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

Brytlyt

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

1983

2002

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes, on a single node

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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