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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Lovefield vs. Typesense vs. XTDB

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Name

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

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

google.github.io/lovefield

typesense.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

typesense.org/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2014

2015

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Using read-only observers

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 using RAFT

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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