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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. QuestDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-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. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational 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
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequestdb.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsquestdb.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftAlachisoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20071992200520142017
Current release11.0, June 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GSQL (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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role-based access control
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BaseXMicrosoft AccessNCacheQuestDBTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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