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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2007

2010

1984

2006

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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