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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

kairosdb.github.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2007

2013

2016

2017

Current release

11.2, August 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple password-based access control

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

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