DBMS > BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. ReductStore vs. Rockset vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. ReductStore vs. Rockset vs. ToroDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

rockset.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.reduct.store/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

ReductStore LLC

Rockset

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

1979

2023

2019

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

V12, November 2020

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++, Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

dynamic typing

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

9 Skills You Need to Become a Data Engineer
2 November 2022, KDnuggets

provided by Google News

FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English
10 November 2020, PR Newswire

World's First Converged IIoT Hub to be Showcased at IoT Tech Expo
3 September 2021, Automation.com

provided by Google News

Rockset Announces Native Support for Hybrid Search to Power AI Apps
17 May 2024, Datanami

Rockset upgrades database to meet the needs of AI hybrid search – Blocks and Files
20 May 2024, Blocks & Files

Data Management News for the Week of May 17; Updates from Anomalo, DataStax, Rockset & More
16 May 2024, Solutions Review

Rockset targets cost control with latest database update
31 January 2024, TechTarget

Rockset Releases New Instance Class, Gains Momentum as the Search and Analytics Database Built for the Cloud
31 January 2024, GlobeNewswire

provided by Google News

Share this page