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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle Coherence vs. XTDB

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

IBM

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

1983

host version

2007

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

12.1, October 2016

14.1, August 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

.Net
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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