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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

velocitydb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

1992

2011

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.x

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Any that supports .NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

Based on Windows Authentication

yes

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