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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Facebook, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2007

2014

2013

1985

Current release

10.7, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

optional

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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