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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. QuestDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
objectbox.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orghugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.ioquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBaiduObjectBox LimitedQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2007201820172014
Current release11.0, June 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissionsyes
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BaseXHugeGraphObjectBoxQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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