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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely 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.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2004

1992

2005

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

R packages

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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