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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release2007201620022017
Current release11.0, June 20245.10, January 20224.02.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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BaseXHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfinityDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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