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DBMS > GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.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.)Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20041992201520002022
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0.0, September 20223.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++ErlangCRust
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes, limitedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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