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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Informix vs. Newts vs. Rockset

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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)A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Relational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixopennms.github.io/­newtsrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.OpenNMS GroupRockset
Initial release20072012198420142019
Current release10.7, August 202314.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC, C++ and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesdynamic typing
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared libraryJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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