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DBMS > Kdb vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.99
Rank#51  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#374  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score90.82
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comkuzudb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.kuzudb.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320221992
Current release3.6, May 20180.4.2, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageqC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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KdbKuzuMicrosoft Access
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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