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DBMS > BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Access vs. PlanetScale vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Access vs. PlanetScale vs. TigerGraph

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMicrosoft 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.)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessplanetscale.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoftPlanetScale
Initial release20072023199220202017
Current release11.0, June 20241.0, March 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyes infovia eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPassword-based authenticationno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRole-based access control

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