DBMS > BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.datomic.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cognitect

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

2012

2006

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Clojure
Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

via events

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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

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