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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. RDFox vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenNMS Group

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

1999

Current release

10.7, August 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Java

C
Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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