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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

basex.org

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

SAP, Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

1987

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

16.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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