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DBMS > Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesMicrosoft 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 DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
jsqldb.org (offline)www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAltibaseDragonflyDB team and community contributorsKonrad von BackstromMicrosoft
Initial release1999202320181992
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0, March 20230.8, December 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsLuafunctions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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