DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Redis vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Redis vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

redis.com
redis.io

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2012

2009

2006

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

via events

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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