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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Citus vs. Hive vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.objectbox.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookObjectBox Limitedinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20072010201220172015
Current release10.7, August 20238.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factoronline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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