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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orgsql.js.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others8Kdata
Initial release20072013200520122016
Current release11.0, June 20243.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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