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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. NSDb vs. OpenMLDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SwayDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.)Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessnsdb.ioopenmldb.aiorigodb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessnsdb.io/­Architectureopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoft4 Paradigm Inc.Robert Friberg et alSimer Plaha
Initial release1992201720202009 infounder the name LiveDB2018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++, Java, ScalaC#Scala
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.NetJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyesno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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