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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. searchxml

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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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

basex.org

geode.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

geode.apache.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

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Initial release

2007

2008

2002

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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, on a single node

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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