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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWell established RDBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.actian.com/­ingresdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceActian CorporationMicrosoftQdrantSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199220211992
Current release12.0, July 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres ReplicatornoneCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Key-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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