DBMS > BaseX vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenNMS Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2007

2014

2010

1992

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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