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DBMS > Badger vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­databasepostgis.net
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBOracle
Initial release20171983201319802005
Current release19.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 202023c, September 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGoPHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesin SQL-layer onlyPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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