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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. GridGain vs. OrientDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 ClickhouseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.gridgain.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.firebolt.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2007202020072010
Current release11.0, June 2024GridGain 8.5.13.2.29, March 2024
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 languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, Javascript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)Hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
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 levelsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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