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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox vs. TigerGraph

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessplanetscale.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftPlanetScaleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20071992202020172017
Current release11.2, August 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access control

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