DBMS > BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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.)

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2007

2010

1992

1994

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

Role-based access control

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