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DBMS > BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgboilerbay.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communitySAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072002199220191992
Current release11.2, August 20244.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0, March 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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