DBMS > BaseX vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.hawkular.org

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2007

2014

2009

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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