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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#304  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.fastware.comgeospock.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release20081992
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20222.0, September 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
hostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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