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

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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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.objectbox.io

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2007

2010

2017

2020

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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