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DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime vs. YDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSMicrosoft 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.)SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftMireoYandex
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199220202019
Current release11.2, May 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatornoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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