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DBMS > BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBaseX GmbHIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2007201020122018
Current release10.7, August 20237.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control

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