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DBMS > BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. SwayDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gigaspaces.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGigaspaces TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release2007198320002018
Current release11.2, August 202419.4.1, November 202115.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno
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 formatno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
PHP.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlno

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