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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Interbase vs. RavenDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

ravendb.net

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

ravendb.net/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Embarcadero

Hibernating Rhinos

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2007

1984

2010

1999

Current release

11.2, August 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.4, July 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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