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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgorientdb.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2007201020122015
Current release10.7, August 20233.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infovia eventsHooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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