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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak TS vs. Tkrzw

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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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2007

2012

2015

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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