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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Coveo vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Microsoft 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 modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iowww.coveo.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.coveo.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceCoveoFatCloudMicrosoft
Initial release20072013201220121992
Current release11.0, June 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedWindowsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infovia applicationsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandrayesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoyesnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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