DBMS > BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.timescale.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Timescale

Initial release

2007

2013

2012

2014

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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