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DBMS > BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Postgres-XL vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Postgres-XL vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBGoogleScyllaDB
Initial release2007200520172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release11.0, June 202414, December 202110 R1, October 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functionsyes, Lua
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infoMVCCno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BaseXEDB PostgresGoogle Cloud SpannerPostgres-XLScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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