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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. Tarantool

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA relational database management system that stores data in columnsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgignite.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.monetdb.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoMonetDB BVVK
Initial release20072015198420042008
Current release11.0, June 2024Apache Ignite 2.6InterBase 2020, December 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetCCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in SQL, C, RLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Interbase Change Viewsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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