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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.43
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Website

basex.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2007

2018

Current release

11.2, August 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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