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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

basex.org

nsdb.io

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.basex.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2007

2017

2014

1987

Current release

2.1, December 2018

10.7, August 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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