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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDatabricksCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20072013201720041994
Current release11.0, June 2024V0.10.20, January 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in Luayesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXDatabricksIRONdbRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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