DBMS > GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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.)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

1991

1992

1989

2003

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

5.7

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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