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DBMS > BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Memgraph vs. Qdrant vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Memgraph vs. Qdrant vs. YottaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 metricAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmemgraph.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
yottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHElasticMemgraph LtdQdrantYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20072010201720212001
Current release10.7, August 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infowith snapshot isolationoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissionsKey-based authenticationUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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