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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Access vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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.)

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

drill.apache.org

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

nsdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

1992

2017

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++

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

Java
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

but no files for transaction logging

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

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