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Name

Description

Light-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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.harperdb.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

HarperDB

Baidu

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2017

2018

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

0.9

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

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

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data 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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.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

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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