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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. SiriDB vs. Vertica

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Open Source Time Series DBMSCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.postgresql.fastware.comsiridb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.siridb.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHElasticPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyCesbitOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2007201020172005
Current release10.7, August 20238.6, January 2023Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXElasticsearchFujitsu Enterprise PostgresSiriDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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