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

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Name

Description

Light-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 vectors

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cockroach Labs

ObjectBox Limited

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2015

2017

1993

2001

Current release

11.2, August 2024

24.1.0, May 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

Proprietary native API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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