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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. SwayDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iogalaxybase.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Simer Plaha
Initial release20072016201520172018
Current release11.0, June 2024Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesnoRole-based access controlno

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