DBMS > BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. mSQL vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. mSQL vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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Name

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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.exasol.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.tigergraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Exasol

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2000

1994

2017

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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