DBMS > BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. KairosDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. KairosDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

geospock.com

www.h2gis.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

GeoSpock

CNRS

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

2013

2016

Current release

11.2, August 2024

2.0, September 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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