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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Spatial extension of SQLite

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
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SingleStore Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

1993

2013

2008

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.4-12

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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