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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

terminusdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DataChemist Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2018

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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