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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. Stardog

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 scalabilityLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
realm.iowww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Stardog-Union
Initial release20072018201720142010
Current release11.2, August 20242023.3, June 20234.0 (May 2024)7.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
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
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesyesyesAccess rights for users and roles
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