DBMS > BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

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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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Exasol

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2013

2000

2014

2020

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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