DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2007

1979

1991

2013

1992

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V12, November 2020

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

horizontal partitioning

none

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).

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

ACID

yes

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 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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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