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DBMS > BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comobjectbox.ioquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCockroach LabsObjectBox LimitedquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20072015201720092009
Current release11.0, June 202424.1.0, May 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCProprietary native APIHTTP 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
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 infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access controlyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions
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