DBMS > BaseX vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

basex.org

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

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Developer

BaseX GmbH

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Transwarp

Rocket Software

Initial release

2007

2017

2014

1985

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

yes

optional

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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