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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Mireo

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

2020

2015

2017

Current release

11.2, August 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via events

Using read-only observers

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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