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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.marklogic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.marklogic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftTobias OetikerSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20072001201019992006
Current release10.7, August 202311.0, December 2022V121.8.0, 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptTransact SQLnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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