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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.69
Rank	#139	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores

Website

basex.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.rockset.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rockset

Initial release

2007

2019

Current release

11.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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