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DBMS > BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docskairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007200520132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2022
Current release11.2, August 202414, December 20211.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-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 functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
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
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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