DBMS > BaseX vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

basex.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kinetica.com

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.kinetica.com

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kinetica

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

1991

2012

2017

2003

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.7

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

optional

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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