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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.gbase.cn

manticoresearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Manticore Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2004

2017

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

6.0, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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