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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. ToroDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platformA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data8Kdata
Initial release20071984200120192016
Current release10.7, August 20237.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoyesAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXOracle RdbSphinxTDengineToroDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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