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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. OpenQM vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2007

1979

1993

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.7, August 2023

V12, November 2020

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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