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DBMS > BaseX vs. FatDB vs. FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FatDB vs. FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. Kingbase

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFatCloudMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20072012201719831999
Current release11.0, June 20242022, May 202219.4.1, November 2021V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#GoC and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 formatyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL queriesyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#Java
Python
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infovia applicationsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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