DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2017

1991

1992

2013

2012

Current release

5.7

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

simple authentication-based access control

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