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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

memgraph.com/docs

ravendb.net/docs

Social network pages

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Manticore Software

Memgraph Ltd

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2007

2017

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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