DBMS > BaseX vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BaseX GmbH

IBM

OpenNMS Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2014

1992

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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