DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-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 environments

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.52
Rank	#140	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#208	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	2.96
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

docs.intersystems.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

InterSystems

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

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

1979

1997

2004

2013

Current release

11.2, August 2024

V3, October 2020

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

depending on used data model

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

yes

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

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

C#
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

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

yes

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

yes

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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