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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MariaDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

objectbox.io

www.teradata.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.objectbox.io

docs.teradata.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

ObjectBox Limited

Teradata

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

1984

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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