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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2015

2018

2011

2023

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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 (WOQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript
Python

.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

in-memory journaling

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

Access Control Lists

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