DBMS > BaseX vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

postgis.net

quasar.ai

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

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

Developer

BaseX GmbH

quasardb

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2007

2005

2009

2017

2008

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Roles, resources, and access types

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