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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Yaacomo

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionMicrosoft 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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serveryaacomo.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPerconaQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19922012199320082009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4-128.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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