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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Spotify

Initial release

2007

2009

2014

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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

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