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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

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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)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple password-based access control

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