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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. RethinkDB

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Name

JSqlDB 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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Konrad von Backstrom

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2007

2016

2018

2009

Current release

11.0, June 2024

0.8, December 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful 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

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

users and table-level permissions

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