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DBMS > Badger vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20171983201020122019
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageGoErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonodynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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