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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgbigobject.iowww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFoundationDBOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20072015200920131984
Current release11.0, June 20243.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoin SQL-layer only
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonono

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