DBMS > BaseX vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2007

1991

1995

2019

2005

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.7

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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