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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime

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Name	EsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Access  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion	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.)	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #292   Overall #137   Relational DBMS	Score 141.82 Rank #9   Overall #6   Relational DBMS	Score 0.00 Rank #363   Overall #5   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.esgyn.cn	www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access	www.mireo.hr/­spacetime
Technical documentation		developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer	Esgyn	Microsoft	Mireo
Initial release	2015	1992	2020
Current release		1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Bundled with Microsoft Office	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++, Java	C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Windows Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no		no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes but not compliant to any SQL standard	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET DAO ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	C C# C++ Delphi Java (JDBC-ODBC) VBA Visual Basic.NET	C# C++ Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Java Stored Procedures	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine	no
Triggers	no	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication between multi datacenters	none	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID but no files for transaction logging	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	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.	no		no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003	yes
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