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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orgorigodb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orgorigodb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Robert Friberg et alDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052009 infounder the name LiveDB2018
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yes infosince Version 4.2no infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.NetJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLyesyesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationRole-based access control

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