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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. gStore

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Website

basex.org

www.esgyn.cn

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

Initial release

2007

2008

2015

2016

Current release

11.2, August 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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