DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

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

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2007

2014

2015

1984

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

11.0, June 2024

1.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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