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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HBase vs. Speedb vs. TimesTen

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorehbase.apache.orgwww.speedb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpeedbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20072008200820201998
Current release11.0, June 20242.3.4, January 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, details hereoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Engineyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infovia eventsCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
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)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXGoogle Cloud DatastoreHBaseSpeedbTimesTen
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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