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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

1979

2018

Current release

11.2, August 2024

V13, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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).

Journaling Streams

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

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

ACID

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 journaling

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 with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Role-based access control

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