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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

Microsoft

8Kdata

Initial release

1999

2015

1992

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and roles

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