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

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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

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2014

1992

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

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

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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