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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackMicrosoft 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.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.14
Rank#171  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aigithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncMicrosoftquasardbAlex Kashirin
Initial release2015199220092020
Current release3.1.0, July 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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