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DBMS > BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDolphinDB, IncSpotifyInterSystems
Initial release20072018201419972014
Current release11.0, June 2024v2.00.4, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
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
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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