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DBMS > BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. Tigris

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#291  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.iowww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCockroach LabsObjectBox LimitedRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20072015201719932022
Current release11.2, August 202424.1.0, May 20244.0 (May 2024)3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCProprietary native APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access controlyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles
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