DBMS > BaseX vs. Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

DataJaguar, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2007

1997

2015

2004

Current release

11.0, June 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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