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System Properties Comparison Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

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.)

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	90.82
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#122	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

kuzudb.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

docs.kuzudb.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2022

1992

1994

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

server-less

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

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

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