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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. InfinityDB vs. SQream DB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 durabilityA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfacea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comboilerbay.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectBoiler Bay Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2007201220022017
Current release10.7, August 20231.0.6735, June 20234.02022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono

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