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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.harperdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

BaseX GmbH

HarperDB

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2007

2017

1994

2023

Current release

11.2, August 2024

3.1, August 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON data types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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