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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. RDFox

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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 assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20072016201220182017
Current release11.0, June 20240.96.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyes infovia eventsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsRoles, resources, and access types

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