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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Light-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 vectors

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2017

2020

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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