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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

newdatabase.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Mobiland AG

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2007

2016

2018

1993

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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