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DBMS > BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Titan

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorigodb.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release200720142009 infounder the name LiveDB20122012
Current release11.0, June 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JavaScript API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript.NetJavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoRole based authorizationnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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