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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1993

1994

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.0.0, January 2024

3.4-12

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

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

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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