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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2008

1992

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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