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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Fauna vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RethinkDB

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

basex.org

fauna.com

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.fauna.com

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rethinkdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Fauna, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

1989

2009

Current release

10.7, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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