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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

BaseX GmbH

IBM

Google

Initial release

2007

1983

host version

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

12.1, October 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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