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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. MarkLogic

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Name	BaseX  Xexclude from comparison	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison	MarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.	A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric	Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database model	Native XML DBMS	Search engine	Document store Native XML DBMS RDF store as of version 7 Search engine
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.46 Rank #143   Overall #4   Native XML DBMS	Score 156.00 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines	Score 10.00 Rank #50   Overall #9   Document stores #1   Native XML DBMS #1   RDF stores #4   Search engines
Website	basex.org	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch	www.marklogic.com
Technical documentation	docs.basex.org	www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html	docs.marklogic.com
Developer	BaseX GmbH	Elastic	MarkLogic Corp.
Initial release	2007	2010	2001
Current release	9.7.2, May 2022	7.8.0, June 2020	9.0, 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source BSD license	Open Source Elastic License	commercial restricted free version is available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Java	C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows	All OS with a Java VM	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent	schema-free Schema can be enforced
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no XQuery supports types	yes	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.		no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes All search fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes SQL92
APIs and other access methods	Java API RESTful HTTP API RESTXQ WebDAV XML:DB XQJ	Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	Java API Node.js Client API ODBC proprietary Optic API Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9 RESTful HTTP API SPARQL WebDAV XDBC XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	Actionscript C C# Haskell Java JavaScript Node.js Lisp Perl PHP Python Qt Rebol Ruby Scala Visual Basic	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby	C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes via XQuery or JavaScript
Triggers	yes via events	yes by using the 'percolation' feature	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	ES-Hadoop Connector	yes via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	multiple readers, single writer	no	ACID can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		Memcached and Redis integration	yes, with Range Indexes
User concepts Access control	Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels		Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels
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