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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.exasol.comhazelcast.comrockset.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHExasolHazelcastRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072000200820192001
Current release11.0, June 20245.3.6, November 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesdynamic typingno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated Mapyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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