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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Couchbase vs. Databricks vs. FileMaker vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.couchbase.com

www.databricks.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.couchbase.com

docs.databricks.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Couchbase, Inc.

Databricks

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

2011

2013

1983

2003

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

with Databricks SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Python
R
Scala

PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Automatic Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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