DBMS > BaseX vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpaceTime

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

quasar.ai

www.sequoiadb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BaseX GmbH

quasardb

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mireo

Initial release

2007

2009

2013

2020

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

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

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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