DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-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 durability

A multi-model DBMS and application server

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cognitect

InterSystems

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

1997

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

V8.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

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