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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBaseX GmbHInterSystemsOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20072018201420142009
Current release10.7, August 20232023.3, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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