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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblazegraph.comwww.firebirdsql.orgnsdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwiki.blazegraph.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBlazegraphFirebird FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release200720062000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20171987
Current release11.0, June 20242.1.5, March 20195.0.0, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesPSQLnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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