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DBMS > BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHarperDBAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release2007201720082005
Current release10.7, August 20233.1, August 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noR packages
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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