DBMS > BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hsqldb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2007

2016

2001

2020

Current release

11.2, August 2024

5.10, January 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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