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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

basex.org

en.oceanbase.com

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

8Kdata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2010

2016

2019

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Access rights for users and roles

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