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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise-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.)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comblueflood.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseRackspaceEsgynMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992013201519922012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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