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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2016

2017

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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.

yes

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

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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