DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2007

2016

2014

2018

1993

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.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

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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