DBMS > BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

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

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

Developer

BaseX GmbH

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

2007

2009

1993

2011

2012

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, 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

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

HTTP API

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

simple authentication-based access control

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