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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. OushuDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iowww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedOushu
Initial release200720122017
Current release11.0, June 20244.0 (May 2024)4.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesKerberos, SSL and role based access
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