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DBMS > BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeSearch engineObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBaseX GmbHIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20072010201520172009
Current release10.7, August 2023V13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoErlang
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationyesyes, using Riak Security
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