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DBMS > BaseX vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.exasol.comgeospock.commanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHExasolGeoSpockManticore Software
Initial release2007201020002017
Current release10.7, August 20238.1, December 20182.0, September 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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