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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

postgis.net

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2007

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2020

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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