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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Heroic vs. ToroDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/torodb/server

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

8Kdata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2007

2014

2016

2014

Current release

11.2, August 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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