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DBMS > BaseX vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEmbarcaderoOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release2007198420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release11.0, June 2024InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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