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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. TypeDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Microsoft 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.)TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstypedb.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftVaticle
Initial release2002201319922016
Current release4.01.2.2, November 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranoneno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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