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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

postgis.net

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2005

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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