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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Rackspace

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2018

Current release

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

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