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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

basex.org

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.basex.org

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Altibase

BaseX GmbH

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

1999

2007

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

10.7, August 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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