DBMS > Dolt vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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.)

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

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

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Initial release

2018

1992

1995

1985

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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