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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. GBase vs. ObjectBox

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Name

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series 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	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2007

2004

2017

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.7, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

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

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

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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15 February 2024

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14 November 2023

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