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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Quasardb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 InterBaseA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisequasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationKyligence, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20162009
Current release10.7, August 20235.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-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
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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