DBMS > Badger vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2017

1983

1997

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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