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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 KubernetesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessnsdb.iopouchdb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessnsdb.io/­Architecturepouchdb.com/­guideswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release1992201720122006
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 20198.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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