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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. gStore vs. InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

basex.org

en.gstore.cn

boilerbay.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Boiler Bay Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2007

2016

2002

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.2, November 2023

4.0

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

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