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DBMS > Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.combasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbHElasticFatCloud
Initial release20132012200720102012
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 202110.7, August 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesyes infovia applications
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applications

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