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

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.enterprisedb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEnterpriseDBSpeedb
Initial release2007202320052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release11.2, August 20241.0, March 202314, December 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnonoyes
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-standardno

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