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DBMS > Graphite vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. YottaDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMSMicrosoft 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 fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessyottadb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisActian CorporationMicrosoftYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19922001
Current release11.2, May 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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