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DBMS > BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orggeospock.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGeoSpockquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release200720092008
Current release10.7, August 20232.0, September 20193.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCHTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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