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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whispera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websqream.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleChris DavisSQream TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20072015200620172018
Current release11.0, June 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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 indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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