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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

pouchdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

pouchdb.com/guides

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2007

2012

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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