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DBMS > BaseX vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnmemgraph.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgapple.github.io/­foundationdbmemgraph.com/­docsdoc.nuodb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Memgraph LtdDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20072013200420172013
Current release11.0, June 20246.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infodynamic graph partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoyesUsers, roles and permissionsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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