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DBMS > BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
objectbox.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHarperDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20072017201620172023
Current release10.7, August 20233.1, August 20215.10, January 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++ and CUDAC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoJSON data typesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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