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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. HBase

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2007202020042008
Current release10.7, August 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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