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DBMS > BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakersphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200719832001
Current release10.7, August 202319.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesno
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 format
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
PHPC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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