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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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.)

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hsqldb.org

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

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2001

1992

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

ACID

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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