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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisequestdb.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datastax.comquestdb.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDataStaxQuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaTeradata
Initial release20072011201420181984
Current release11.0, June 20246.8, April 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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