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DBMS > BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rocksdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.objectbox.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBaseX GmbHObjectBox LimitedFacebook, Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2007201720132016
Current release11.0, June 20244.0 (May 2024)9.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary native APIC++ API
Java API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesnono
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