DBMS > BaseX vs. EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. STSdb

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Softmotions

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

9 Skills You Need to Become a Data Engineer
2 November 2022, KDnuggets

provided by Google News

Farewell, Froggy: The Age of Ribbit Is Nearing an End
25 May 2013, Mother Jones

provided by Google News

Share this page