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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dolt vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 schemaDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
rethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.dolthub.comrethinkdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDoltHub IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20072018200920182019
Current release10.7, August 20232.4.1, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infocurrently in alpha releasenono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basednonenone
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.Source-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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 startupyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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