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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  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 InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20102017
Current release10.7, August 20235.0.0, January 20240.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
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
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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