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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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.)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#218	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	96.72
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

machbase.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

machbase.com/dbms

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

2019

2013

1992

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

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

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

but no files for transaction logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

simple password-based access control

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

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