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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Access vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

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

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

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2015

1992

2020

2010

2015

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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