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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. JanusGraph

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2007

2004

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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