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DBMS > BaseX vs. Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#194  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.firebolt.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.dolthub.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.firebolt.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDoltHub IncElasticFirebolt Analytics Inc.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20072018201020202013
Current release11.2, August 20248.6, January 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupno

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