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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigquerygreenplum.orgboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGooglePivotal Software Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20072010200520022015
Current release11.0, June 20247.0.0, September 20234.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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