DBMS > BaseX vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. XTDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

1997

2014

2018

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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