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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

2013

2005

2011

2016

Current release

11.0, June 2024

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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