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DBMS > BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRDF store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resourcesrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsExasolSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072023201220002004
Current release10.7, August 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infovia eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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