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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite vs. YTsaurus

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sqlite.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2013

2011

2000

2023

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.23, February 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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