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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Netezza vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Netezza vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.)Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaprometheus.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release1992200020152009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.no infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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