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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

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.)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

linter.ru

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

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

relex.ru

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1990

1992

2015

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Erlang

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

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