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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Codenotary

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2020

2010

2018

Current release

11.2, August 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

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