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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgcassandra.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEsgynOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2007200820152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release11.0, June 20244.1.3, July 202310 R1, October 20183.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, JavaCErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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