DBMS > Altibase vs. BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. ToroDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

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

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#140	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#310	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#139	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

basex.org

www.datomic.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.basex.org

docs.datomic.com

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

Developer

Altibase

BaseX GmbH

Cognitect

FairCom Corporation

8Kdata

Initial release

1999

2007

2012

1979

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.2, August 2024

1.0.7180, July 2024

V13, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Clojure
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via events

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

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

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

15 Best Database Software Of 2024
3 July 2024, Spotlight | DesignRush

Altibase is Adopted to Resolve Problems Related to Concurrent Logon Attempts for E-learning and E-library
12 February 2020, PR Newswire

In-Memory Computing Market Balance to Improve on Sharp Decline
14 April 2022, openPR

Top 13 In-Memory Computing Companies in the World
16 May 2023, IMARC Group

Up and Coming Latin Rapper Lil Mexico HOV to Release Singles Every Month
10 April 2020, One World Herald

provided by Google News

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

provided by Google News

Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank
16 August 2021, InfoQ.com

Nubank acquires US company; PayPal studies cryptocurrencies
24 July 2020, iupana.com

Zoona Case Study
16 December 2017, AWS Blog

Fintech Powerhouse Nubank Buys U.S. Software Firm Cognitect
23 July 2020, Bloomberg

These are the top 25 people who will have the most influence in tech this year, according to a survey of over
15 April 2020, Business Insider India

provided by Google News

FairCom Unveils New Look, FairCom DB v13: Introducing 'DB Made Simple'
4 June 2024, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Share this page