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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GBase vs. Infobright vs. Netezza

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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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gbase.cn

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

Developer

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

IBM

Initial release

2007

2004

2005

2000

Current release

11.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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