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DBMS > BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20071983200220142019
Current release10.7, August 202319.4.1, November 20211.1, February 20171.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (OQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
PHP.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights per client and object definable

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