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

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasememgraph.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9memgraph.com/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Memgraph LtdOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20072008199120172010
Current release11.0, June 20247.2.4, September 20125.73.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava, Javascript
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
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 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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