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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn 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. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessterminusdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release1999199220182012
Current releaseV8.0, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.0.0, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++Prolog, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API
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
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role-based access controlyes

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