DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Light-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 durability

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

basex.org

www.datomic.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.datomic.com

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cognitect

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2007

2012

2013

2004

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple password-based access control

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