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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Initial release

2007

2020

2008

2013

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

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