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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. OushuDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. OushuDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosoft 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.)A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.oushu.com/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaMicrosoftOushuSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201219922022
Current release7.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0.1, August 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Kerberos, SSL and role based accessyes, based on authentication and database rules

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