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DBMS > BaseX vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 cachingA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRisingWave LabsSimer Plaha
Initial release2007200320222018
Current release11.0, June 20241.6.27, May 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRustScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocolJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and Rolesno

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