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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgbigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.splunk.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSplunk Inc.Timescale
Initial release20072015200920032017
Current release11.0, June 20243.10.0, March 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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