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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Elastic

FatCloud

Initial release

2007

2010

2012

2005

Current release

11.2, August 2024

8.6, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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