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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 durabilityA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comwww.ehcache.orggeospock.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2007201220092008
Current release11.0, June 20241.0.7075, December 20233.10.0, March 20222.0, September 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIJCacheJDBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoby using Terracotta Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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