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DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectSoftmotionsGooglePlanetScale
Initial release20072012201220142020
Current release11.2, August 20241.0.7180, July 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureCJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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