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DBMS > BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.ehcache.orggeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockIBMAlessandro Furieri
Initial release200720091983 infohost version2008
Current release11.0, June 20243.10.0, March 20222.0, September 201912.1, October 20165.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JCacheJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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