DBMS > BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

basex.org

www.eventstore.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developers.eventstore.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Event Store Limited

FairCom Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2007

2012

1979

2004

Current release

10.7, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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