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DBMS > BaseX vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. VelocityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2manticoresearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2manual.manticoresearch.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHIBMManticore SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20071983 infohost version20172011
Current release10.7, August 202312.1, October 20166.0, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.Can index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
.Net
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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