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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BaseX GmbH

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2007

2015

2012

2012

Current release

15585

10.7, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

no

XQuery supports types

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

no

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

Lua

no

Triggers

yes

yes

via events

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

multiple readers, single writer

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

no

no

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