DBMS > BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. ObjectBox vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.harperdb.io

objectbox.io

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

HarperDB

ObjectBox Limited

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2007

2010

2017

2020

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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