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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#375	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

galaxybase.com

hbase.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2007

2017

2008

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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