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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.harperdb.io

objectbox.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

HarperDB

ObjectBox Limited

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

1983

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data types

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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