DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. Memgraph

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2007

2008

2015

1991

2017

Current release

11.2, August 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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