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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge

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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.)

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	141.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#267	Overall
	#17	Search engines

Score	4.48
Rank	#85	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

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

milvus.io

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1992

2019

1984

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0, January 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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