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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.enterprisedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.openpie.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

EnterpriseDB

IBM

OpenPie

Initial release

2007

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

11.0, June 2024

14, December 2021

2.1, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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