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DBMS > BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 interfaceExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn 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 storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgboilerbay.comobjectbox.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.objectbox.iodocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBoiler Bay Inc.ObjectBox LimitedHuawei and openGauss communitySAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072002201720191992
Current release11.0, June 20244.03.0, March 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI 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)
Proprietary native APIJDBC
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++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesyes
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 nodesnonenoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-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 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 loadsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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