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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2007

2016

2010

2022

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

.NET and C

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

.NET

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

Users and Roles

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