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DBMS > BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Tkrzw

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcouchdb.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCloudflareApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCirconus LLC.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20072018200520172020
Current release10.7, August 20233.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 20180.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnonoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in Luano
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.nononoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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