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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2007

2012

2002

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11.2, August 2024

21.2, February 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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