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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

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.)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1992

1984

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

yes

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