DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

basex.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.basex.org

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

2007

1992

2011

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

11.2, August 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Based on Windows Authentication

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