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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

1992

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Any that supports .NET

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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