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DBMS > BaseX vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. jBASE

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2007201420141991
Current release10.7, August 20235.0.0, May 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesoptional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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