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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. LokiJS

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggeode.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release20072008200420022014
Current release11.2, August 20247.2.4, September 2012GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
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++
Java
PHP
C#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesAccess rights per client and object definableno

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