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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Kdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed reliable key-value storeHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score7.05
Rank#53  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebolt.iokx.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.firebolt.iocode.kx.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release200720202000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release11.2, August 20243.4, August 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, watching key changesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnorights management via user accounts
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BaseXetcdFireboltKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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