DBMS > BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2007

2010

2007

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

14.1, August 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Live Events

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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