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DBMS > BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. Vertica vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. Vertica vs. YDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.vertica.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvertica.com/­documentationydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardYandex
Initial release2007200920052019
Current release11.0, June 20243.2.0, December 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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BaseXRiak KVVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™YDB
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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