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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gbase.cn

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2007

2004

2014

1984

Current release

11.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Users and groups

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