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DBMS > atoti vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteatoti.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperActiveViamMicrosoftMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release199220152022
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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