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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2007

2014

1999

1984

Current release

11.2, August 2024

V8.0, August 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

Users and groups

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