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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigObject vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

bigobject.io

orientdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.bigobject.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

BigObject, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2015

2010

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via events

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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