DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

basex.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Google

Sybase, SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2007

2014

1993

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

10.7, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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 SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using MemoryDB

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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