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DBMS > BaseX vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRocksetAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2007201920082013
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesdynamic typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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