DBMS > BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Speedb

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Name

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

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

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.couchbase.com

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchbase.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Couchbase, Inc.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Speedb

Initial release

2007

2011

2002

2016

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

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

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

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 per client and object definable

yes

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