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DBMS > BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. VoltDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Microsoft 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.)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsMicrosoftVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2007201219922010
Current release10.7, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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