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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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.)

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2005

1992

2017

2011

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
Java

C#
Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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