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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.leanxcale.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

Circonus LLC.

LeanXcale

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

2015

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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