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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

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	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

basex.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CCRi and others

Manticore Software

Initial release

2007

2014

2013

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

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