DBMS > BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.graphengine.io

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2010

2014

2009

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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