DBMS > BaseX vs. Oracle vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.oracle.com/database

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP, Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

1980

2009

1987

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

23c, September 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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