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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

kairosdb.github.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2007

2002

2013

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

4.0

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

simple password-based access control

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