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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrientDB vs. Weaviate

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Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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.)

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com

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

orientdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

2016

1992

2010

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.2.29, March 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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