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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGemini vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGemini vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.)An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
terminusdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengemini.org/­guideterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini communityDataChemist Ltd.8Kdata
Initial release20001992202220182016
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.1, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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 2003Administrators and common users accountsRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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