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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Coveo vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionMicrosoft 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 modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comblueflood.iowww.coveo.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.coveo.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAltibaseRackspaceCoveoEsgynMicrosoft
Initial release19992013201220151992
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyespredefined schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandrayesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDACID 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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