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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

2018

2011

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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