DBMS > Badger vs. Couchbase vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Couchbase vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

DGraph Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2011

1983

2014

2003

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

via plugins

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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