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DBMS > BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2007200919942018
Current release11.0, June 20243.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangyesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication ServerJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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