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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.monetdb.org

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

BaseX GmbH

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2007

2004

1994

Current release

11.2, August 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

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

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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