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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMicrosoft 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.)A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.monetdb.orgquasar.aisiridb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAltibaseMicrosoftMonetDB BVquasardbCesbit
Initial release19991992200420092017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accounts

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