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DBMS > BaseX vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb vs. Titan

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SAP, formerly SybaseSpeedbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20071984199420202012
Current release11.0, June 20247.4.1.1, 202116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes, on a single nodeACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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BaseXOracle RdbSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSpeedbTitan
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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