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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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 ServerOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssphinxsearch.compingcap.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.PingCAP, Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20072016200120162012
Current release11.0, June 20243.5.1, February 20238.1.0, May 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Go, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnonoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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BaseXMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSphinxTiDBWakandaDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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