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DBMS > BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Faircom DB vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Faircom DB vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBFairCom CorporationBaidu
Initial release20072005197920182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release11.0, June 202414, December 2021V12, November 20200.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCANSI C, C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++asynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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