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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

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Name	BaseX  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Quasardb  Xexclude from comparison	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
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, high-performance timeseries database	RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database model	Native XML DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS	RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.42 Rank #144   Overall #4   Native XML DBMS	Score 0.75 Rank #204   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #329   Overall #29   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.75 Rank #205   Overall #9   RDF stores
Website	basex.org	www.geomesa.org	quasardb.net	rdf4j.org
Technical documentation	docs.basex.org	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	doc.quasar.ai/­master	rdf4j.org/­documentation
Developer	BaseX GmbH	CCRi and others	quasardb	Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release	2007	2014	2009	2004
Current release	9.7.3, June 2022	3.2.0, April 2021	3.13.3, April 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source BSD license	Open Source Apache License 2.0	commercial Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses	Open Source Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Scala	C++	Java
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows		BSD Linux OS X Windows	Linux OS X Unix Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes RDF Schemas
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no XQuery supports types	yes	yes integer and binary	yes
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.		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes with tags	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	Java API RESTful HTTP API RESTXQ WebDAV XML:DB XQJ		HTTP API	Java API RIO RDF Input/Output Sail API SeRQL Sesame RDF Query Language Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL
Supported programming languages	Actionscript C C# Haskell Java JavaScript Node.js Lisp Perl PHP Python Qt Rebol Ruby Scala Visual Basic		.Net C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python R	Java PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	yes
Triggers	yes via events	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	depending on storage layer	Sharding consistent hashing	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	depending on storage layer	Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	with Hadoop integration	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		depending on storage layer	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	multiple readers, single writer	no	ACID	ACID Isolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes by using LevelDB	yes in-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		depending on storage layer	yes Transient mode
User concepts Access control	Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail	no
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