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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Coveo vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Coveo

Google

Initial release

2007

2012

2010

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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