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DBMS > BaseX vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Serverless Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHyprcubd, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2007201320052013
Current release10.7, August 20233.4.2, February 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelstoken accessStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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