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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2010

Current release

11.2, August 2024

5.0.1, August 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C and Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined procedures and functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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