DBMS > BaseX vs. MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

1984

2021

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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