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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orghsqldb.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orghsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release2007200820012009
Current release10.7, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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