DBMS > BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

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

milvus.io

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2015

1992

2019

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

23.1.1, May 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
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

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role-based access control

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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