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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DataFS vs. HarperDB

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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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Website

basex.org

newdatabase.com

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Mobiland AG

HarperDB

Initial release

2007

2018

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

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)

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

via events

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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