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DBMS > BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersRockset
Initial release2007201420132019
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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