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DBMS > BaseX vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Faircom DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Faircom DB vs. ToroDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 PostgreSQLNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgcachelot.iowww.citusdata.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFairCom Corporation8Kdata
Initial release20072015201019792016
Current release10.7, August 20238.1, December 2018V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
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
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users and roles

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