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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifySybase, SAP
Initial release20072016198320141993
Current release10.7, August 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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