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DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ToroDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB 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.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbfauna.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.fauna.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationFauna, Inc.Microsoft8Kdata
Initial release20071979201420122016
Current release10.7, August 2023V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava 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
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
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#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writertunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and roles

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