DBMS > BaseX vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

dgraph.io/docs

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

FairCom Corporation

Google

Initial release

2007

2016

2015

1979

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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