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DBMS > BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBBaidu
Initial release2007200520182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release10.7, August 202314, December 20210.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.asynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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