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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Light-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 ElasticSearch

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DolphinDB, Inc

Spotify

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

2014

2015

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java 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

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Administrators, Users, Groups

rights management via user accounts

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