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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Brytlyt vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

brytlyt.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.brytlyt.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Brytlyt

Cockroach Labs

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2007

2016

2015

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.0, August 2023

23.1.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

Proprietary native 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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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In-Memory Database Use Cases
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Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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