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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBaseX GmbHManticore SoftwareApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2007201720122015
Current release10.7, August 20236.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.Can index from XMLnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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