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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

basex.org

cassandra.apache.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.basex.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2017

2007

2008

1999

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

11.0, June 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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