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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

2007

2016

2014

2011

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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