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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Softmotions

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2013

2012

2017

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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