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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007200620132022
Current release11.0, June 20241.2.2, November 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnosimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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