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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2007201520142014
Current release10.7, August 2023V13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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