DBMS > Badger vs. Databricks vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Databricks vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.databricks.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

docs.databricks.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DGraph Labs

Databricks

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2017

2013

1983

1989

1994

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

with Databricks SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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