DBMS > BaseX vs. Citus vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Citus vs. OrientDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Light-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 PostgreSQL

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.23
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#117	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.50
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.citusdata.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.citusdata.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2007

2010

Current release

10.6, May 2023

8.1, December 2018

3.2.17, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Graph DBMS increased their popularity by 500% within the last 2 years
3 March 2015, Paul Andlinger

Graph DBMSs are gaining in popularity faster than any other database category
21 January 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Fuego Base x Benny the Butcher x OT the Real - THE WAREHOUSE ...
3 May 2023, SHOOT Online

XML Databases Software Market Overview, Top Manufactures ...
25 May 2023, Scene for Dummies: Everything Hollywood Undead

What Is the DGA Willing To Strike For?
23 May 2023, No Film School

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan After the Taliban's Afghanistan ...
18 May 2023, ctc.westpoint.edu

How to use the Builder Hall 10 X-Bow in Clash of Clans?
16 May 2023, Sportskeeda

provided by Google News

Microsoft Expands Azure PostgreSQL Moxy Through Citus Data ...
30 January 2019, Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft Announces PostgreSQL Option for Cosmos DB
12 October 2022, The New Stack

What is Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server?
24 June 2022, TechRepublic

Citus Data Announces Citus Cloud Database Support for HIPAA and ...
13 November 2018, Business Wire

Citus For PostgreSQL Goes Fully Open Source
4 July 2022, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Graph Database Market Analysis Report 2023 Along with Statistics ...
25 May 2023, Digital Journal

Key Value Databases Market Size in 2023 To 2029 | AWS, Accumulo, Aerospike, ArangoDB, Azure, BoltDB, Cassandra
17 May 2023, openPR

Nosql Databases Software Market to Witness Astonishing Growth by ...
26 May 2023, Scene for Dummies: Everything Hollywood Undead

Graph Database Market Size, Share, Industry, Forecast to 2030
9 May 2023, openPR

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
Treez, Inc., Remote

Database Administrator/Developer - Hybrid/Remote
Telos Corporation, Ashburn, VA

Customer Care Specialist
EXFO, Richardson, TX

jobs by

Share this page