DBMS > BaseX vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

quasar.ai

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

quasardb

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2009

2015

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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