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DBMS > Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMicrosoft 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.)Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.stardog.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftStardog-UnionSTS Soft SC
Initial release2005199220102011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.3.0, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesno

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