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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgsphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release200720012022
Current release10.7, August 20233.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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