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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 WhisperAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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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
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webswaydb.simer.auyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleChris DavisSimer PlahaYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20072015200620182001
Current release11.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoNumeric data onlynono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoby using the Octo plugin
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
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneyes
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic single-row operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.noyesyes
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)nonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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