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DBMS > BaseX vs. Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.60
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score17.79
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.83
Rank#73  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.memcached.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2007200320092018
Current release11.2, August 20241.6.29, June 20243.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnonoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access control

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