DBMS > BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

basex.org

couchdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FairCom Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2005

1979

2021

2003

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

V3, October 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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