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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.34
Rank	#150	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#253	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2007

Current release

11.2, August 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

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