DBMS > BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.harperdb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

HarperDB

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2007

2017

2014

2017

2022

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data types

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of specific operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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