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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgpouchdb.comterminusdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.voltdb.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2007201220182010
Current release10.7, August 20237.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptProlog, RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyesJava
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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