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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstrafodion.apache.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2007199220142001
Current release10.7, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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 levelsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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