DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. chDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. chDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SiteWhere

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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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

doc.chdb.io

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

FairCom Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2013

2023

1979

2010

Current release

11.2, August 2024

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

predefined scheme

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

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

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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