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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata vs. Transbase

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.teradata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgquestdb.io/­docsdocs.teradata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHQuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaTeradataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20072014201819841987
Current release10.7, August 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
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
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 filesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXQuestDBSwayDBTeradataTransbase
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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