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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebird FoundationPerconaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release200720082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20152011
Current release10.7, August 20237.2.4, September 20125.0.0, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20177.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSON.Net
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPSQLJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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