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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2007

2009

1987

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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