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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

Light-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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Machbase

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

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