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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#137	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#170	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/overview/index.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2007

1984

Current release

10.5, March 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes, on a single node

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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