DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DolphinDB, Inc

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2007

2016

2018

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

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