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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

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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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

splicemachine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2007

2017

2014

2012

Current release

11.0, June 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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