DBMS > BaseX vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tarantool.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

2013

2011

2008

2016

Current release

11.0, June 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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