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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.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.)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#93  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Microsoft
Initial release2000197920121992
Current release4.9.0, July 2023dBASE 2019, 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaJavadBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlernoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB Transactionsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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