DBMS > BaseX vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

clickhouse.com

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

clickhouse.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Qdrant

Initial release

2007

2016

1992

2021

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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

Key-based authentication

Role-based access control

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