DBMS > BaseX vs. Ingres vs. MySQL vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ingres vs. MySQL vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.mysql.com

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.actian.com/ingres

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Actian Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2007

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1995

2019

Current release

11.2, August 2024

12.0, July 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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