DBMS > BaseX vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

nsdb.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

1984

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.5, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

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