DBMS > BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.couchbase.com

geospock.com

hbase.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchbase.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Couchbase, Inc.

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2007

2011

2008

Current release

10.7, August 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.0, September 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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