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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.96
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#320  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#100  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHIBMGoogle
Initial release20072017201320112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release10.7, August 20232.02.7.5, January 20241.23, February 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernononoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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