DBMS > BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. Warp 10

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

cassandra.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Konrad von Backstrom

SenX

Initial release

2007

2008

2018

2015

Current release

11.0, June 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 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
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 can be defined per object

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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