DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TerminusDB

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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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

FairCom Corporation

IBM

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2013

1979

2017

2018

Current release

11.2, August 2024

V3, October 2020

2.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Active-active shard replication

Journaling Streams

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
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

in-memory journaling

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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