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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenNMS Group
Initial release2007200620102014
Current release10.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaPythonErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlynoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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