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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMicrosoft 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 DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orghbase.apache.orgmemgraph.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMemgraph LtdMicrosoft
Initial release20072008200820171992
Current release10.7, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree license availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
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
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissionsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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