DBMS > Altibase vs. BaseX vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

basex.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Altibase

BaseX GmbH

SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

1999

2007

2010

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.