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DBMS > BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.23
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.77
Rank#121  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#12  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDB
Initial release200720052023
Current release10.7, August 202314, December 20211.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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