DBMS > BaseX vs. Coveo vs. EDB Postgres vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Coveo vs. EDB Postgres vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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.

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.coveo.com

www.enterprisedb.com

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.coveo.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Coveo

EnterpriseDB

Sybase, SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2012

2005

1993

Current release

10.7, August 2023

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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