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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.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.)A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.immudb.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCodenotaryMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2014202019922019
Current release1.2.3, April 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like syntaxyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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