DBMS > BaseX vs. Hyprcubd vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hyprcubd vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

basex.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.marklogic.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Hyprcubd, Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2007

2001

1989

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC (https)

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

token access

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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