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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FeatureBase vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FeatureBase vs. InfinityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
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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#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.featurebase.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.featurebase.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceFairCom CorporationMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20072013197920172002
Current release11.0, June 2024V3, October 20202022, May 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDyesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no

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