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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Realm vs. Tkrzw

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorerealm.iodbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20171983201720142020
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoPHPGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yesno

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