DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.basex.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2007

1979

2015

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.7, August 2023

V12, November 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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