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DBMS > Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMicrosoft 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
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.combasex.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbHMicrosoft
Initial release2012200720101992
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, August 20248.1, December 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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