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

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgcachelot.iowww.citusdata.comcouchdb.apache.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software Foundation
Initial release20072015201020052012
Current release10.7, August 20238.1, December 20183.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesnono
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
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 APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
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
JavaScript
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 JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
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
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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 databaseno

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