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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Access vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.leanxcale.com

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

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

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2015

1992

2020

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

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

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

yes

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

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