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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DataFS vs. etcd vs. H2 vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

newdatabase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.h2database.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Mobiland AG

Thomas Mueller

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2018

2005

2020

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

3.4, August 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

via events

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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