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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft 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.)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.04
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score3.72
Rank#76  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score92.15
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#181  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrockset.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleEmbarcaderoMicrosoftRocksetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20081984199220192018
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)yesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic shardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosInterbase Change ViewsnoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole-based access control

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