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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. etcd vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CCRi and others

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2007

2014

1992

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.4, August 2019

5.0.1, July 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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