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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP 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.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	95.36
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

duckdb.org

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

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

duckdb.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2018

1992

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.0, June 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

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