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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

basex.org

dgraph.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2007

2016

2014

2010

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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