DBMS > BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

raima.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.raima.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Elastic

Alachisoft

Raima Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2010

2005

1984

2013

Current release

11.0, June 2024

8.6, January 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

15, June 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

yes

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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News

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