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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. TypeDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

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

Website

basex.org

typedb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

typedb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Vaticle

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2016

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

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

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

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 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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Competitive advantages

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