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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenEdge vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.progress.com/openedge

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2007

2015

2016

1984

2008

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.10, January 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users and groups

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