DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

cassandra.apache.org

geospock.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GeoSpock

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2007

2008

Current release

1703

10.7, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2.0, September 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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