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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GridDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

griddb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.griddb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2007

2013

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.1, August 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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 at container level

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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