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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

quasar.ai

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

quasardb

Cesbit

Initial release

2007

2005

2009

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

yes

Numeric data

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple rights management via user accounts

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