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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20072002200320132017
Current release10.7, August 20234.01.6.25, March 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
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 levelsnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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