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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Realm vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

realm.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2014

2003

2018

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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