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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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 WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisApache Software FoundationInterSystems
Initial release20072006201520182013
Current release10.7, August 2023Apache Ignite 2.62023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet 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#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyessimple password-based access control
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