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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom DB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. QuestDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgequestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceFairCom CorporationFairCom CorporationQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20072013197919792014
Current release10.7, August 2023V12, November 2020V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++ANSI C, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.
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BaseXBluefloodFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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