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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Well established RDBMS

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 MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

blueflood.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.actian.com/ingres

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

ActiveViam

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1992

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

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

Access rights for users and roles

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