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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

basex.org

www.esgyn.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Esgyn

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2007

2015

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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