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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.)Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#173  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#261  Overall
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.40
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release199220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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Microsoft AccessObjectBoxPostgres-XLTigerGraph
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