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DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Yaacomo

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.pinecone.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationGooglePinecone Systems, IncQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20071979201720192009
Current release10.7, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava 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
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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