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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. QuestDB vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgquestdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgquestdb.io/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHQuestDB Technology IncOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTeradata
Initial release20072014201720091984
Current release10.7, August 20236.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnonoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID for single-table writesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXQuestDBRDFoxRiak KVTeradata
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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