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DBMS > BaseX vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Kdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgdgraph.iowww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­bigtablekx.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdgraph.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscode.kx.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDgraph Labs, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20072016198320152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release11.2, August 202419.4.1, November 20213.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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