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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Informix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Informix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. WakandaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataOracles in-memory data grid solutionWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.OracleWakanda SAS
Initial release20072012198420072012
Current release10.7, August 202314.10.FC5, November 202014.1, August 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and JavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes

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