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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

1983

2006

Current release

10.7, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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