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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2016

2017

2011

Current release

11.2, August 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
Java
PHP

C
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

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