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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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 environmentsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceFairCom CorporationFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072013197920132010
Current release11.2, August 2024V3, October 20206.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno infosome layers support typingno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoANSI SQL queriessupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++in SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Linearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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.noAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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