DBMS > BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.couchbase.com

geospock.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchbase.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Couchbase, Inc.

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2007

2011

2014

2008

Current release

10.7, August 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.0, September 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via the TAP protocol

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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