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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.43
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#244	Overall
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	28.65
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2007

2023

1987

Current release

11.2, August 2024

1.0, March 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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