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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

basex.org

objectbox.io

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2007

2017

2009

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

HTTP 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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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