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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.34
Rank#150  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#187  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.90
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgbigobject.ioboilerbay.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.bigobject.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Huawei and openGauss communitySAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072015200220191992
Current release11.2, August 20244.03.0, March 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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