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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EventStoreDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Event Store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.eventstore.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developers.eventstore.com

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

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Event Store Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2007

2012

2008

Current release

10.7, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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