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DBMS > BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. EDB Postgres vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. EDB Postgres vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Well established RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.enterprisedb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEnterpriseDBActian Corporation
Initial release2007202320051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release11.2, August 20241.0, March 202314, December 202112.0, July 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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