DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool

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Name

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2007

1979

2016

1995

1999

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V3, October 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

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#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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