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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. etcd vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A distributed reliable key-value store

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.dolphindb.com

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

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DolphinDB, Inc

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

2002

Current release

11.0, June 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.4, August 2019

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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