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DBMS > BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.exasol.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperBaseX GmbHExasolFirebird FoundationIBMSimer Plaha
Initial release200720002000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172018
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, January 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsPSQLyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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