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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BaseX vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	ArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparison	BaseX  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten	Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS in next version	Native XML DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.10 Rank #358   Overall #48   Document stores #38   Graph DBMS #52   Key-value stores #35   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.84 Rank #135   Overall #4   Native XML DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS
Website	arcadedb.com	basex.org	www.hawkular.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.arcadedb.com	docs.basex.org	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Arcade Data	BaseX GmbH	Community supported by Red Hat	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2021	2007	2014	1993
Current release	September 2021	11.0, June 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source BSD license	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Java	Java
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	Linux OS X Windows	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no XQuery supports types	yes	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.	no		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language, no joins	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC MongoDB API OpenCypher PostgreSQL wire protocol Redis API RESTful HTTP/JSON API TinkerPop Gremlin	Java API RESTful HTTP API RESTXQ WebDAV XML:DB XQJ	HTTP REST	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	Actionscript C C# Haskell Java JavaScript Node.js Lisp Perl PHP Python Qt Rebol Ruby Scala Visual Basic	Go Java Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	no	yes
Triggers		yes via events	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	none	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes relationship in graphs	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	multiple readers, single writer	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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