DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BaseX vs. EsgynDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BaseX vs. EsgynDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

basex.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.basex.org

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Esgyn

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2019

2007

2015

2013

2004

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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