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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HyperSQL vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLiteA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orghsqldb.orgquestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orghsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20072001201420081984
Current release11.0, June 20242.7.2, June 20235.0.0, August 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lesshosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBQuestDBSpatiaLiteTeradata
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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