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DBMS > BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.enterprisedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.enterprisedb.com/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCloudflareEnterpriseDBMicrosoft
Initial release20072018200520152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release11.0, June 202414, December 2021V110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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