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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. DataFS vs. FileMaker vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

1983

1999

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Windows-Profile

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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