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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GigaSpaces vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1.60
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#86	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gigaspaces.com

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2007

2000

2001

Current release

11.2, August 2024

15.5, September 2020

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, event driven architecture

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

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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