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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. Speedb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comobjectbox.iopouchdb.comwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCockroach LabsObjectBox LimitedApache Software FoundationSpeedb
Initial release20072015201720122020
Current release11.0, June 202424.1.0, May 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnono
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCProprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes
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 RAFTnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access controlyesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXCockroachDBObjectBoxPouchDBSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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