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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orghive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20072012201420132003
Current release10.7, August 20233.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 20241.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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BaseXHiveIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBMemcached
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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