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DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 durabilityCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoresurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectGoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007201220172022
Current release10.7, August 20231.0.6735, June 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes, based on authentication and database rules

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