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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. Immudb vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.eventstore.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developers.eventstore.com

docs.immudb.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Event Store Limited

Codenotary

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2020

2002

2011

Current release

11.2, August 2024

21.2, February 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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