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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus

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Name

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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Initial release

2017

1983

2013

2014

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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