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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OushuDB

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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

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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

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

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oushu

Initial release

2018

1992

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

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

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

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

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

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

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

ACID

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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