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DBMS > BaseX vs. Interbase vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Interbase vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHEmbarcaderoquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20071984200920082023
Current release10.7, August 2023InterBase 2020, December 20193.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 20201.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesVector, Numeric and String
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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