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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. dBASE vs. Fauna vs. RethinkDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebangdb.combasex.orgwww.dbase.comfauna.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orgwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.fauna.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbHAsthon TateFauna, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20122007197920142009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.0, June 2024dBASE 2019, 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infousers and table-level permissions

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