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DBMS > BaseX vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsExasolMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072012200020152004
Current release10.7, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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