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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2007

2009

2014

2009

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JCache

HTTP REST

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor on file system level

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)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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