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DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
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 environmentsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeen.gstore.cnwww.harperdb.ioobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationHarperDBObjectBox Limited
Initial release20071979201620172017
Current release10.7, August 2023V3, October 20201.2, November 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C++Node.jsC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 queriesnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
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
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Proprietary native API
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 writerACIDyesAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
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.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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