DBMS > BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. SQLite

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DolphinDB, Inc

MarkLogic Corp.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

2018

2014

2001

2000

Current release

10.7, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

11.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Administrators, Users, Groups

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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