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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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.)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Spotify

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

1991

1992

2018

Current release

5.7

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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