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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#137	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#157	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#74	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#219	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

fauna.com

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.fauna.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Fauna, Inc.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2007

2014

Current release

10.4, December 2022

4.0.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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