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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2007

1984

2013

2018

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple password-based access control

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