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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMicrosoft 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.)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Firebird FoundationMicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19922008
Current release2.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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