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

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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

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

realm.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2014

2018

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net

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

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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