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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. gStore vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

en.gstore.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

kairosdb.github.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cockroach Labs

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2015

2016

2013

1987

Current release

11.2, August 2024

24.1.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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