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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. gStore vs. LokiJS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2016

2014

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.2, November 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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