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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2007

2013

2022

2009

Current release

11.0, June 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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