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DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comhazelcast.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectExasolHazelcastRockset
Initial release20072012200020082019
Current release11.0, June 20241.0.7075, December 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsyesyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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