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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

hsqldb.org

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

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.teradata.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

SAP, formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2007

2001

1994

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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.

yes

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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