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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Primary database model

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Score	2.27
Rank	#112	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

basex.org

galaxybase.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

BaseX GmbH

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Initial release

1984

2007

2017

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.2, August 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, details here

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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