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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

origodb.com/docs

questdb.io/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Robert Friberg et al

QuestDB Technology Inc

Ultipa

Initial release

2007

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

2019

Current release

11.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role based authorization

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