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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. chDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

doc.chdb.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2023

2010

2018

Current release

11.0, June 2024

V12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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