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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 visualizationLight-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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#307  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#140  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score131.64
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#181  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationBaseX GmbHElasticFatCloudSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132007201020122022
Current release1558511.2, August 20248.6, January 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
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
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
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#Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes infovia applications
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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