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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Access vs. SWC-DB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Ultipa

Initial release

2015

1992

2020

2019

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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

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