DBMS > BaseX vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

opennms.github.io/newts

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

trafodion.apache.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenNMS Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Ultipa

Initial release

2007

2014

1992

2014

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

17, July 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
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

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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