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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus

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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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
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	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

basex.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2012

2007

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11.2, August 2024

11.5.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via events

yes

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for in-memory storage engine

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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