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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.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.)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.11
Rank#137  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#283  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score132.06
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgharperdb.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgharperdb.io/­developers/­documentation/­overviewdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHarperDBMicrosoft
Initial release200720171992
Current release10.5, March 20233.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoJSON data 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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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