DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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.)

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

machbase.com

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

www.monetdb.org

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Machbase

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1992

2004

2009

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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