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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosoft 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comgeospock.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.com/­dbmsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGeoSpockEmbarcaderoMachbaseMicrosoft
Initial release2017198420131992
Current release2022, May 20222.0, September 2019InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factornone
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 integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesnoyes 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.yesnoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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