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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhispermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.ioorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2007200619942009 infounder the name LiveDB2005
Current release10.7, August 20234.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonCC#C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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