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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosoft 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.)A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessmilvus.iowww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCirconus LLC.MicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release20072017199220192004
Current release10.7, August 2023V0.10.20, January 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.3.4, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BaseXIRONdbMicrosoft AccessMilvusMonetDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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