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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SingleStore vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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.)

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.singlestore.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1999

1992

2013

2009

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

64 bit version required

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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