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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hypertable

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-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.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationFairCom CorporationHypertable Inc.
Initial release20142007197919792009
Current release11.0, June 2024V12, November 2020V3, October 20200.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaANSI C, C++ANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava 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
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writertunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no

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