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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. RisingWave

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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.)Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessobjectbox.iowww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperBaseX GmbHHarperDBMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedRisingWave Labs
Initial release20072017199220172022
Current release10.7, August 20233.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoJSON data typesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes
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
Proprietary native APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
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 loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes 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.yesnoyes
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 2003yesUsers and Roles
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