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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-memory caching system

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2016

2015

2020

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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