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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerhbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20071983200820121998
Current release10.7, August 202319.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 201911 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
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 viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
PHPC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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