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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Microsoft 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.)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.gbase.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20152004199220002022
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++CRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyes, based on authentication and database rules

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