DBMS > BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB

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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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2007

2010

2015

2012

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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.

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)

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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