DBMS > BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mcobject.com

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

McObject

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

1992

2013

Current release

8.2, 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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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