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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.monetdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsMonetDB BVAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2007201220042008
Current release11.0, June 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared libraryJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
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
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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