DBMS > BaseX vs. Infobright vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Infobright vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

trafodion.apache.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2007

2005

2014

1999

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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