DBMS > BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Well established RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.exasol.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.actian.com/ingres

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Exasol

FatCloud

Actian Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2007

2000

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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