DBMS > BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.heavy.ai

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2007

2005

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

5.10, January 2022

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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