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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BaseX vs. eXtremeDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

basex.org

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.basex.org

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

McObject

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2007

2001

2015

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

11.2, August 2024

8.2, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by defining events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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