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DBMS > BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.orgquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHManticore SoftwareMonetDB BVquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20072017200420092008
Current release10.7, August 20236.0, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.Can index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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