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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. EJDB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.datastax.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DataStax

Softmotions

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2011

2012

1998

2009

Current release

10.7, August 2023

6.8, April 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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

Linux
OS X

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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