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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.graphengine.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2010

2008

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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