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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. SpaceTime

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

greptime.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.greptime.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Greptime Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2007

2022

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP 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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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