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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release2014200720231992
Current release10.7, August 20231.0, March 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyes infovia eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPassword-based authenticationno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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