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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Well established RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

basex.org

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

11.2, May 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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