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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HBase vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Website

basex.org

hbase.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

hbase.apache.org/book.html

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2008

2013

2011

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.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
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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