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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. PostgreSQL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.96
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#158  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score634.91
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20072007200520081989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release10.7, August 2023GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 202116.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.yesnonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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