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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Embarcadero
Initial release20072015200219842005
Current release10.7, August 2023Apache Ignite 2.64.0InterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.yesnono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)noneInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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