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

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  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from the ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in 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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.featurebase.comapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFatCloudMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFoundationDBBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20072012201720131999
Current release10.7, August 20232022, May 20226.2.28, November 2020V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#GoC++C and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL queriessupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard 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
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infovia applicationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyesACIDACID
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 applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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