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DBMS > BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.An embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHKineticaMonetDB BV
Initial release2007201320122004
Current release10.7, August 20237.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
GoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnoACID
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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