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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 PlatformHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072008201420132011
Current release10.7, August 20232.7.6, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, details hereyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
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
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Enginenonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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.Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
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)nosimple rights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXGoogle Cloud DatastoreHawkular MetricsInfluxDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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