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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.ehcache.org

www.exasol.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Exasol

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2007

2008

2009

2000

1994

Current release

11.0, June 2024

11.0, January 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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