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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.openpie.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Chris Davis

OpenPie

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

2015

2006

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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