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DBMS > BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. RRDtool vs. YDB

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOpenNMS GroupTobias OetikerYandex
Initial release20072014201419992019
Current release10.7, August 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnononoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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