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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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.)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2010

1992

1994

2004

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

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