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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. NCache

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Esgyn

Alachisoft

Initial release

2007

2013

2015

2005

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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