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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Microsoft 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.)Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorientdb.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPquasardb
Initial release2000199220102009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.29, March 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava, Javascriptno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono infocould be achieved with distributed querieswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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