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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Riak TS

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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.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

1983

2014

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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