DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MariaDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MariaDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

FairCom Corporation

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Splice Machine

Initial release

2007

2013

1979

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

V3, October 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

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
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Java

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar 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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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