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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072015201720182011
Current release10.7, August 2023V16.0, Septermber 202211.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicereplication via a shared file systemJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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