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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleKineticaTranswarp
Initial release2007201720132012
Current release11.2, August 20242.7.6, April 20247.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnono
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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BaseXGoogle Cloud FirestoreInfluxDBKineticaTranswarp ArgoDB
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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