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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

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.)

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#137	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	132.06
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.36
Rank	#129	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

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

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2007

1992

2004

Current release

10.4, December 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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