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DBMS > BaseX vs. EJDB vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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)Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072012200120102013
Current release11.2, August 20242.7.2, June 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoNumeric data and Strings
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared libraryHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXEJDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBIBM CloudantInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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