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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.dbase.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHAsthon TateDataJaguar, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release2007197920152012
Current release11.0, June 2024dBASE 2019, 20193.3 July 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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