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System Properties Comparison Kuzu vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB

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NameKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityMicrosoft 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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#374  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score90.82
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#370  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitekuzudb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kuzudb.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftVelocityDB Inc
Initial release202219922011
Current release0.4.2, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsserver-lessWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
Cypher Query Language
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Based on Windows Authentication

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