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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#355	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.basex.org

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Arcade Data

BaseX GmbH

CCRi and others

quasardb

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2021

2007

2014

2009

2016

Current release

September 2021

10.7, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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