DBMS > BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2002

2010

2011

Current release

11.0, June 2024

21.2, February 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

9 Skills You Need to Become a Data Engineer
2 November 2022, KDnuggets

Xml Databases Software Market Thriving at a Tremendous Growth – TIMC
16 June 2024, TIMC

provided by Google News

SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News

Share this page