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DBMS > BaseX vs. Kingbase vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Kingbase vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnmanticoresearch.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Manticore SoftwareAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20071999201720082005
Current release11.0, June 2024V8.0, August 20216.0, February 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.yesCan index from XMLnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoR packages
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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