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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MarkLogic vs. Valentina Server

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score6.50
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.marklogic.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.marklogic.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDolphinDB, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MarkLogic Corp.Paradigma Software
Initial release20072018201220011999
Current release10.7, August 2023v2.00.4, January 202211.0, December 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL92yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesyesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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