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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

blueflood.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenPie

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2007

2013

2005

1987

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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