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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. TigerGraph

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.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.)Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.h2database.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHThomas MuellerMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release20072005199220172017
Current release11.0, June 20242.2.220, July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIGSQL (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
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesRole-based access control
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