DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.harperdb.io

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.harperdb.io/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

1992

2013

Current release

3.1, August 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using LMDB

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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

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