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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2013

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role based authorization

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