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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

greptime.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.greptime.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Greptime Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2022

2009

2011

Current release

11.0, June 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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