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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Citus vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSSpatial extension of H2NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.citusdata.comdgraph.iowww.h2gis.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDgraph Labs, Inc.CNRSDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20072010201620132013
Current release11.0, June 20248.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infobased on H2Java, SQL
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via Raftyes infobased on H2yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC
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.noyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infobased on H2Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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