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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ToroDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

8Kdata

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2016

2019

2001

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

Clojure
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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