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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox vs. openGemini

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  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 InterBaseUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.harperdb.ioobjectbox.iowww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationHarperDBObjectBox LimitedHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720172022
Current release10.7, August 20235.0.0, January 20243.1, August 20211.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Node.jsC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoSQL-like query language
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
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesyesAdministrators and common users accounts
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