DBMS > BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2007

2012

2001

2014

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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