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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GridGain vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gridgain.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2007

1994

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

via events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, on a single node

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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