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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datastax.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDataStaxGoogleMicrosoftRocket Software
Initial release20072011201420151985
Current release10.7, August 20236.8, April 20202.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesoptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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BaseXDatastax EnterpriseLovefieldMicrosoft Azure AI SearchUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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