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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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.)

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1992

2016

2015

2013

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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