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DBMS > BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.An embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSpotifyHypertable Inc.
Initial release2007201320142009
Current release10.7, August 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
GoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono

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