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

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  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.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer8Kdata
Initial release2007201320052016
Current release10.7, August 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles

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