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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 datasetsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftPerconaApache Software Foundation
Initial release1992201220152012
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
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 for users and rolesno

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