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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MaxDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

maxdb.sap.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

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

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

1984

2012

2018

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 journaling

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

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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