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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.Oraclequasardb
Initial release20072014200120112009
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 202411.0, December 202224.1, May 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesoptionalyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integrationwith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes, with Range Indexesyes infooff heap cacheyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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