DBMS > BaseX vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

basex.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

TempoIQ

Initial release

2007

1994

2012

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial license available

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

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

simple authentication-based access control

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