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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.46
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#321	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

basex.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2019

Current release

11.2, August 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

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 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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