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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Derby vs. etcd vs. TimesTen

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Name

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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

db.apache.org/derby

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2007

1997

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.4, August 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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