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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebolt.iomanticoresearch.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.firebolt.iomanual.manticoresearch.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.Manticore SoftwareAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20072020201720082005
Current release10.7, August 20236.0, February 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.Can index from XMLnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoR packages
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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