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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. DataFS vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. DataFS vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HarperDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.ionewdatabase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceMobiland AGFairCom CorporationHarperDB
Initial release20072013201819792017
Current release11.0, June 20241.1.263, October 2022V3, October 20203.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++Node.js
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
WindowsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)dynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoJSON data types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Custom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraProprietary Sharding systemFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoWindows-ProfileFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users and roles

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