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DBMS > BaseX vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. CouchDB vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. CouchDB vs. Interbase

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.In-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgcachelot.iowww.citusdata.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEmbarcadero
Initial release20072015201020051984
Current release11.0, June 20248.1, December 20183.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesnoyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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