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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquasar.airethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release20072012200920092010
Current release11.0, June 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeroptimistic lockingACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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