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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. SurrealDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.43
Rank#147  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20072022
Current release11.2, August 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes
Triggersyes infovia events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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