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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 ClickhouseUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#128  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.harperdb.ioobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.firebolt.iodocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.HarperDBObjectBox Limited
Initial release2007202020172017
Current release10.7, August 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 SQLnoyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Proprietary native 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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