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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BaseX GmbH

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2007

1984

2012

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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