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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial extension of SQLite

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ehcache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Alessandro Furieri

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2009

2008

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JCache

.Net

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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