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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. etcd vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

basex.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2007

1979

1994

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

V3, October 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, watching key changes

yes

only for the SQL API

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

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

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