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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.graphengine.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Embarcadero

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2007

2010

1984

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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