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DBMS > Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20171983200920052012
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.8.11, March 20163.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoPHPC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor on file system levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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