DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.marklogic.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.marklogic.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MarkLogic Corp.

SAP

Initial release

2007

1979

2010

2001

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V12, November 2020

11.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

C++

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

SQLScript, R

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

Sharding

yes

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).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

multiple readers, single writer

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes, with Range Indexes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

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