DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.monetdb.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Embarcadero

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

1984

1992

2004

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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