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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2015

2009

1984

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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